They discovered life in the deep oceans of Europa and it got out. The miners from the moons would not stop mining, the Mining Federation Police, and Earth Central blockaded all transport for fear of contagion. It all came to a head at Europa, and the newest hire, Crystal Murphy just happened to be in the wrong place at the right time.

Eight science fiction and fantasy stories. A mysterious pod crashes into a fragile community on Europa. A belligerent overlord threatens the post-humans on Io. Here are tales of extraordinary animals, talking alligators and magical birds.
Half are reprints from publications such as the Aurora Award nominated anthology Strange Bedfellows. The rest are original stories.

On January 7, 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei turned his newly developed telescope to Jupiter. He discovered four objects orbiting the giant planet. It took him another night’s observations to clearly distinguish between two of them. He called them “The Medicean planets”, after the Medici family. Find out more fun, fascinating facts about these four moons orbiting our largest planet.

How big is Jupiter compared to all the other planets in our solar system combined?
Is there a surface to the planet Jupiter?
Does Jupiter rotate faster of slower than any other planet in our solar system?
Is Jupiter growing or shrinking?
Learn the answer to these questions and many more fun facts in this 15-Minute Book. Find out more about Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet.

This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - is a comprehensive account of the epic Galileo probe of Jupiter and its moons, recounting the difficult path to launch, the change in Shuttle upper stages after the Challenger accident, the high gain antenna and tape recorder anomalies, and the enormous scientific success of the mission.

This collection of stories from Rhysling and Crawford Prize-nominated fantasy writer, J. M. McDermott embraces the surreal and hallucinatory traditions of Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad, and The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy, to tell the stories that are always absent from the official books of history.
Sing, Muse, for yourself.

Candy Sparkles is a refugee from an endangered Earth who sold herself to Hector Jupiter's Traveling Curiosity Show to escape the mother world's fate. Now she's the most popular exotic dancer on Io. All of which is fine--except Hector forces her to go service a very special client, a client who has the power to save the Earth. And Candy Sparkles is going to discover exactly what she really is.